Repentance
314 questions
What is the difference between smoking and each of the following: performing ablution while wearing nail polish and praying with it, listening to music, and covering the face?
Is a wet dream after repenting from masturbation considered a breach of that repentance, what are the best times for repentance, and is Umrah a condition for repentance?
What is the ruling on persisting in sin despite knowing its consequences, and without a strong desire, but believing in Allah's forgiveness and pardon?
Does not feeling guilt after repeated transgressions in the relationship with the fiancé indicate Allah's wrath and the questioner's expulsion from His mercy, and how can she restore her sense of guilt and Allah's رضا (pleasure)?
What are the situations that invalidate or corrupt repentance?
How can I repent for impersonating people online for three years using others' photos, avoiding facing those I wronged on the Day of Judgment, and is secret repentance between me and Allah sufficient without confronting those I lied to?
Does the repentance of someone who has cursed Allah Almighty with grave sexual الفاظ (highly exalted is Allah above that) get accepted, especially if the cursing was intentional, and is it necessary to mention the الفاظ when repenting?
Is the repentance of one who has repeatedly committed sodomy in the past accepted if he repents after learning of its prohibition and punishment, but is unable to lower his gaze from women in the street? And is this considered to mean that his repentance is invalid, or valid but incomplete?
How should a person who repented from heinous sins that he committed openly in front of his friends act when they ask him to talk about them and tempt him to do so? Should he deny those sins and walk away, or should he declare his repentance to them and refuse to discuss it?
Does one incur sin by saying, "I did such and such" (a sin, a transgression, a crime)?
Will a girl who sent nude pictures to a young man then repented be held accountable for ongoing sins (sayyi'at jariyah) if the young man keeps the pictures? And what should she do about her constant regret?
Does apologizing for not paying the wife's mother constitute an act of disbelief (kufr)? And does the expiation (kaffarah) drop if she forgives it? And how can one expiate for this act and for delaying prayers?
Is it permissible to set a date for repentance, such as saying, "I will repent next Thursday"?
Does repentance erase sins that the disobedient person committed openly?
Is the sender of pictures of an unveiled girl to an unknown person burdened with the sins of everyone who views these pictures if the latter publishes them? And what is the way to repent from this sin?
Does repentance for some sins become void if the penitent based his repentance on a jurisprudential opinion and then it became clear to him that the other opinion is more correct?
Is it necessary to specify the sins one has not repented of when saying, "O Allah, I repent to You from all my sins," and does committing a sin thereafter invalidate the repentance for all sins?
Is repeated repentance for the same sin accepted after repeatedly committing it, and is an expiation for an oath (kaffarat yameen) incumbent upon one who breaks their promise not to return to the sin?
Is repentance valid if it is contingent upon the occurrence of a sin, such as repenting from lying about prophets before it happens, provided there is regret and a firm resolve not to repeat it?
Is a general message of seeking forgiveness for those I have backbitten sufficient, instead of directly asking for their forgiveness, in order to avoid their anger or severing ties with them?
Is seeking forgiveness sufficient to atone for relaying unconfirmed news and causing a problem, without asking for forgiveness from the person to whom the news was relayed, for fear of escalating the problem?
What is the expiation for the sin of someone who engaged in masturbation after an indecent conversation with a girl via an electronic game, and then regretted his action?
Is repentance from indicating sin or from committing it a condition for the forgiveness of جاری sins, and does the sin of friends seeing a picture of an unveiled woman fall on me because of my comment, or on the one who posted the picture?
How can one repent of cursing the people of an entire country, and will Allah forgive that given the impossibility of asking their forgiveness, and will supplicating for them erase the sin according to the Hadith: "And follow up a bad deed with a good deed which will wipe it out," and will Allah not forgive these sins except through seeking absolution?